Whatever your preferred forms of creating, there's one thing that we all need in place to enjoy creating at its fullest, and to be able to reach close to our full creative potential time and time again.
It's not about talent or ability. It's not about materials or equipment. It's simply about finding your unique creative flow.
What does this mean, this creative flow?
It means finding, and making the most of, the natural patterns and rhythms of creating that work best for you.
There's not a single "one-size-fits-all" solution you can learn and instantly be fully in the flow of your creativity. Finding your creative flow involves a number of elements, and takes practice, commitment, experimentation. Put the effort in though and the rewards and invaluable.
Where to begin?
Finding your creative flow starts by building an underlying level of creative "fitness". This means creating regularly so your creativity is in good shape, and gets used to the habits of creating often.
If you create only once or twice a month then on those occasions expect to come out with some effortless masterpiece, you're setting yourself up for a major disappointment.
Create everyday though, and it becomes easier and more natural to create on demand.
In fact you become so used to thinking and being creative, you can't actually switch it off. This is state to strive for, so wherever you go, ideas pop up, and you're seeing things you've never seen before, and you feel tuned in to some internal creative well spring you thought had dried up years ago.
Once you reach this kind of level, beginning new projects becomes far easier, you just ease into them. It becomes like simply dipping your hand in a stream to redirect the flow of water to where you want it. Whereas if you don't have this underlying creative fitness, beginning a new project feels more like searching for an oasis in the desert! Even if you DO find one, you'll be so exhausted having spent days trying to find it, you'll not have any energy left for the creating itself.
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